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LIVE: The Best Way To Fight Breast Cancer

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sanford is reminding us of the single most important thing you can do to prevent breast cancer

  FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sanford is reminding us of the single most important thing you can do to prevent breast cancer. Sanford wants all women who are at a normal risk for breast cancer to get yearly screenings starting at age 40. They say now is the perfect time to schedule your exam with…

Sanford Health to start administering new monovalent COVID-19 vaccine

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – With flu season coming up fast and COVID continuing to spread, Sanford Health will be giving out the new monovalent COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine is labeled as the 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine which doctors are saying will provide cross-protection. This new vaccine will target the omicron variant XBB 1.5 which was first discovered in the United States…

Fargo Police Gives Update on Officers Dotas and Hawes

Officer Andrew Dotas and Officer Tyler HawesFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Police Department issuing a great update on the two other officers injured by the shooter on July 14. They say Officer Andrew Dotas was recently able to walk without the assistance of a walker. He is listed in serious but stable condition at Sanford which is also where Officer…

Easton Stick Gives Back to Football Community With QB Clinic

Easton Stick and Sanford Athletics Host Invite Only QB Camp For Local High Schoolers

FARGO, N.D. — Former Bison quarterback and current backup QB for the Los Angeles Chargers, Easton Stick is back in Fargo today to give back to the local football community. Stick was 49-3 as a starter for North Dakota State and holds the record for most wins by a starting QB in Division 1 FCS history. Now with the Chargers,…

Boy Burned In ATV Gas Tank Explosion in Plummer, MN

PLUMMER, Minn. (KVRR) — A 13-year-old boy is burned after an explosion while putting gas into an ATV. It happened Sunday at a gas station in Plummer, Minnesota. Red Lake County Sheriff Mitch Bernstein says the boy was taken to Sanford in Thief River Falls and then flown to the Hennepin County Burn Center. His condition is not known at…

With sudden change in temps and snow melt comes spring allergies

FARGO, ND (KVRR) – After a long and brutal winter, we are finally seeing the grass and the colors of summer start to bloom.  With that sudden change in temperatures and snow melt comes spring allergies.  Dr. Woei Eng, an allergist at Sanford in Fargo says, “tree pollens are the major issue around this area. Usually, the tree pollen such as oak…

Is It Too Early To Get A Colonoscopy?

Recommended age change from 50 to 45.

FARGO (KVRR) – It’s colon cancer awareness month and there have been some changes on who should get checked. Doctors around the country are recommending you get screen if you’re 45 or older. “Colon cancer in the United States claims about 50,000 lives. The majority of cases of colon cancer are preventable if people do age and risk appropriate screening.”…